This is a silk top that was a long patchwork skirt. I've turned it into an enpire kind of bubble top.

The straps and belt are lingerie elastic with plush on the back and i just has some apple green that matched in colour. I've rolled the hem 4 time and hand tacked it to the vertical seams. This gives some weight to the top as the silk is really light. The top part has all this great sort of smocking stiching.

Here's the effect after a couple of washes. The flowers are from a printed jersey scrap of fabric.

This Tee has a big purple inlay and flower patches on top. I used an orange silky woven fabric that keeps on fraying each time you wash it. Keeps evolving and looks better every wash. Once again, i cut away the neck and stitched a strip of the purple tee fabric around the edge. If you stretch the strip as you sew, it curls on both edges. (you must cut this strip across the jersey to get it to curl).

I've zigzag stitched around the neckline, but the applique is straight stitched.

The sleeves come almost to the elbow, but i've narrowed them so they are pretted fitted.

I took a really big men's tee and slimmed it down and fitted it. I don't like crew necklines so i always cut them away.

I've made a square neck with gathered crinoline tulle. There's a facing all around the neckline to keep the shape.

The rosette is crystal organza.

So this took two tees. a black Rolling Stones tee and the big red one. There's a couple of green snakes under my applique too.

Just so you can see the actual shape on the body.

Here's the front and back after the "hitching".

I've added a stray earring for decoration and it also conveniently hides some of the stitching. The dress becomes kind of a cocoon shape.

I bought this dress secondhand because i saw some potential for "hitching" it up to give it a totally different shape.

just another back view. The dress takes 4 1/2 meters of fabric that must be at least 150 cm wide.

Back view.

The pattern is a full circle for the skirt with two really long pieces of fabric (approx 114"x 13") for the straps.

This is just a different view. The straps are spread open to form a cap sleeve look.

This is an ITY fabric 92% poly 8% spandex. I basically made a dress similar to that dress that wraps in lots of different ways. I made this for a client in "oversize".

These are some more

"fake embroidery" flowers. It only took about 1 1/2 to do all this.

You use any thick yarn and simply zigzag stitch over top with the same colour. I usually chalk my design on the fabric first. Use a foot from your machine that has "grooves" in the bottom, like a button hole foot.